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Date:      Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:04:55 -0500 (EST)
From:      Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 4.0 20000125-CURRENT 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001271700050.45246-100000@kronos.alcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <200001272143.QAA20638@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> 
> I have on a number of occasions had my laptop boot with a
> non-functional keyboard.  Sometimes the keyboard is just locked; other
> times it generates garbage.  Never managed to isolate the
> circumstances in which this happened (but it didn't happen with a
> kernel from last September or there-abouts).  Haven't had it happen on
> a desktop or server yet.
> 
> -GAWollman

  I've seen this on a Compaq Armada laptop recently (-current from about
1/10/2000). It only happens when I interrupt the boot process with a key
press (I cannot recall whether it was in /boot/loader or in boot2). I
suspect the latter, but have not yet tracked the problem down.

  Kelly

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Kelly Yancey  -  kbyanc@posi.net  -  Richmond, VA
Analyst / E-business Development, Bell Industries  http://www.bellind.com/
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